Tetris Quotes

I’m Tetris Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.

Lucky for you, I’m not Monopoly Silas anymore. I’m Tetris Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.

Life is like Tetris; if it doesn't fit, just flip it over

Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies...

The Tetris Effect—When our brains get stuck in a pattern that focuses on stress, negativity, and failure, we set ourselves up to fail. This principle teaches us how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunity wherever we look.

When I walk into a room, you’d think I was one of those long, straight Tetris pieces because everyone’s just like, “Oh great, you’re here! We’ve been waiting for you to show up.

It’s confusing, but grown-ups are often confusing because their heads work like a Tetris game and they have to arrange all their worries in the right

Go away,” I say. He raises his hands in surrender and takes a step back. “This far?” “Farther.” Another step. “Better?” “Yes,” I smart. Silas grins. “I don’t know myself well, but I can tell I have a lot of game.” “Oh, please,” I say. “If you were a game, Silas, you’d be Monopoly. You just go on and on and everyone ends up cheating just to be over with it.” He’s quiet for a minute. I feel bad for saying something so awkward even if it was a joke. “You’re probably right,” he laughs. “That’s why you cheated on me with that asshat, Brian. Lucky for you, I’m not Monopoly Silas anymore. I’m Tetris Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.

With both of the trailer’s airlock doors open I was able to get the first battery in. After playing real-life Tetris for a while I found a way to get the first battery out of the way enough to let the second battery in.

They’re stackable, like Tetris. All beverages should be stackable.

Gli occhi di Rev erano fissi su di lei. Bui, tetri. Però c’era ancora un flash che accecava chi rimaneva lì a guardare e Sibylle era al momento accecata dalla piccola, debole luce che ancora intravedeva in mezzo a quell’oscurità densa, l’unica luce che dava a quegli occhi una certa parvenza umana. L’unico motivo che li facevano sembrare ancora vivi e non... morti.

Bludgeoning, but the puppy is only to be hit exactly 7 times, and once this is completed, exactly 33.55 kg of Kingsford brand charcoal is to be placed on the puppy. 3 Samsung Galaxy s6 mobile phones are to placed around the puppy in a triangular formation, and each phone is to have both "Premium Tetris" and "Dog Barking Translator" installed on them. Once this is done, put a thermonuclear bomb inside the machine that is exactly 3 cm in width and 10 cm in height, and it is to be placed on the second Samsung Galaxy s6 placed in there. It is to be detonated using a functioning remote control made entirely out of sausages.

Het is verwarrend, maar volwassenen zijn vaker verwarrend, omdat hun hoofden als een Tetris-spelletje werken en al hun zorgen op de juiste plek moeten inparkeren. Als het er te veel zijn, stapelen ze zich op en loopt alles vast. Game over.

I have superior organizational skills. I sense how things can fit together. I’m, like, a human Tetris. It’s my superpower.

Sam said she drove like she was playing Tetris.

Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.

Time is the friend of someone who is properly positioned and the enemy of someone poorly positioned. When you are well positioned, there are many paths to victory. If you are poorly positioned, there may be only one. You can think of this a bit like playing Tetris. When you play well, you have many options for where to put the next piece. When you play poorly, you need just the right piece.

I closed my eyes and felt all the furniture in my room begin to disappear, like backwards game of Tetris, lifting up toward the top of the screen and then vanishing, and the next thing that would vanish would be me.

Never fear,” Julian drawled, leaning back with his palms pressing into the rug. “The house is not on fire, your daughter hasn’t ingested six different types of poison, and I haven’t managed to beat your high score in Tetris.

Working in information security is sometimes a bit like playing Tetris: your successes disappear but your failures accumulate. When information security works flawlessly, it is invisible. And rarely is anyone thanked for stopping a disaster that didn't happen.

IL NUNZIO Un murmure, un rombo... Son solo: ho la testa confusa di tetri pensieri. Mi desta quel murmure ai vetri. Che brontoli, o bombo? che nuove mi porti? E cadono l'ore giù giù, con un lento gocciare. Nel cuore lontane risento parole di morti... Che brontoli, o bombo? che avviene nel mondo? Silenzio infinito. Ma insiste profondo, solingo smarrito quel lugubre rombo.

Parents seem to collect pain. They never seem to get rid of the original complaints completely, they just get new ones that become more urgent. It’s kind of like Tetris. When you’re young you can make the shapes slip in right and tight and they make a line, then disappear. But when you get old, the shit comes at you faster and faster and you can’t stop it stacking up. Then your grid’s full and you’re finished.

NOTTE Dl VENTO Allora sentii che non c'era, che non ci sarebbe mai più... La tenebra vidi più nera, più lugubre udii la bufera... uuh... uuuh... uuuh.. Venia come un volo di spetri, gridando ad ogni émpito più: un fragile squillo di vetri seguiva quelli ululi tetri... uuh... uuuh... uuuh.. Oh! solo nell'ombra che porta quei gridi... (chi passa laggiù?) Ohl solo nell'ombra già morta per sempre... (chi batte alla porta?) uuh... uuuh... uuuh...

What its withered technology lacked, the Game Boy made up in user experience. It was cheap. It could fit in a large pocket. It was all but indestructible. If a drop cracked the screen—and it had to be a horrific drop—it kept on ticking. If it were left in a backpack that went in the washing machine, once it dried out it was ready to roll a few days later. Unlike its power-guzzling color competitors, it played for days (or weeks) on AA batteries. Old hardware was extremely familiar to developers inside and outside Nintendo, and with their creativity and speed unencumbered by learning new technology, they pumped out games as if they were early ancestors of iPhone app designers—Tetris, Super Mario Land, The Final Fantasy Legend, and a slew of sports games released in the first year were all smash hits. With simple technology, Yokoi’s team sidestepped the hardware arms race and drew the game programming community onto its team.

E ricordi che anche allora i sogni erano tristi, e se anche prima non andava meglio, pur tuttavia senti sempre che in qualche modo era più facile e più quieto vivere, che non c'erano questi pensieri neri, che ora mi opprimono; che non c'erano questi rimorsi, rimorsi cupi, tetri, che ora non mi danno pace né di giorno, né di notte. E ti chiedi: dove sono mai i tuoi sogni? e scuoti la testa, dici: come volano in fretta gli anni! E di nuovo ti chiedi: cosa hai fatto dei tuoi anni? Dove hai sepolto il tuo tempo migliore? Hai vissuto o no? Guarda, ti dici, guarda come il mondo è diventato freddo.

She finds the door wide open and the place empty, another failed dotcom joining the officescape of the time—tarnished metallic surfaces, shaggy gray soundproofing, Steelcase screens and Herman Miller workpods—already beginning to decompose, littered, dust gathering . . . Well, almost empty. From some distant cubicle comes a tinny electronic melody Maxine recognizes as “Korobushka,” the anthem of nineties workplace fecklessness, playing faster and faster and accompanied by screams of anxiety. Ghost vendor indeed. Has she entered some supernatural timewarp where the shades of office layabouts continue to waste uncountable person-hours playing Tetris? Between that and Solitaire for Windows, no wonder the tech sector tanked.

It’s been twenty-five years of it, man, and like I said at the beginning of the interview, I’m really happy, I really am. I often have to pinch myself, that I even have relevance of any sort. I get to do all sorts of cool shit, I get tons of free toys and it’s great. My family’s healthy and I’m healthy. It’s great. So looking at it from that point of view, yeah, it’s awesome. But to me, I don’t think I’ve been relevant to the metal scene for years. It’s funny because sometimes folks go out of their way to try and defend me, and I’m like, 'No, don’t, dude.' I’m making puppets and fart jokes, and it’s not because I’m trying to be provocative or I’m lazy or whatever. It’s just less about music for me now than it is about making Tetris pieces work melodically.

Tu padre decía que el Tetris le hacía pensar en la vida. Que conforme ibas pasando de nivel, las piezas caían más rápido. Tanto que a veces no tenías tiempo de reorganizarlas...

magical manly car-packing Tetris

You are.” “We’re computer pushers. First it’s Fortune’s Favor and before you know it—” “Minecraft. Fortnite. Words With Friends,” Firian said. “Soon you’re just prowling the streets looking for the next hit. Hey, man. Hey, you got any pixels, man? I’ll take Animal Crossing. Tetris. Whatever you got.

Tetris teaches you that fitting in will only make you disappear.

Tetris: los bloques que bajan lentamente son más fáciles de colocar que los que bajan a toda velocidad. Cuando comemos alimentos en el orden adecuado (primero las verduras, después las proteínas y las grasas, y por último los hidratos de carbono) no solo reducimos la velocidad a la que bajan los bloques, sino que disminuimos la cantidad de bloques gracias a la malla que nos proporciona la fibra en el intestino. Cuanto más lentamente se filtre la glucosa en nuestro flujo sanguíneo, más planas serán nuestras curvas de glucosa y mejor nos sentiremos. Podemos comer exactamente lo mismo, pero tomando los hidratos de carbono al final generamos una gran mejora en nuestro bienestar físico y mental.

La vida es un juego de Tetris, hay que ir acomodando las cosas a como vayan cayendo.

The default-mode network has since been implicated in modes of thought like mind-wandering, creative thinking, and dreaming. “As you’re falling asleep, your brain is falling into that default mode where it’s reviewing events from the day,” Stickgold explained. “It’s reviewing everything that has a tag on it that says, ‘You’re not done with this.’” That could be anything new, vague or intense—a game of Tetris or a hike up a steep mountain, a confusing conversation or nerve-racking project.

Let me tell you two things about living the game of Tetris. The pieces never stop coming. But more importantly, if you take a break and let them keep stacking, you don’t lose the game. In fact, as you take a step back and watch the pieces fall on top of each other, none of them fitting correctly, that’s the spot of pure bliss. That’s where you find peace.

The parking lot is jammed—the valets sprint from car to car. They play full-metal Tetris. They swerve, reverse at speed, never clip a bumper.

For many years, video games gave him a person and a place to be, as well as things to do. But an event happens to a pair of eyes after enough hours before a computer screen—they will scan the display and mid-game, shatter. Consoles crack men. It’s massacre. Andrei would thumb plastic so often that his mind would flee reality, as well as the virtual world he was in, and enter a dimension of empty euphoria. But one euphoric day he felt games were a sophisticated way to keep a pig in its own corner. The videogames advanced to become more realistic—but one must not be fooled by decorations. The detail-rich galaxies he found himself investing his life in were in fact the same galaxy as Pacman or Tetris: 1s and 0s.

Uncle Earl had exiled Nick from the parlor for playing his Gameboy, believing Tetris to be part of a communist plot and refusing to allow it in his presence.

Next time you want to fight off a food craving grab your Smartphone or dig out your old game-boy and play Tetris for 3 minutes. This is enough to reduce food (also caffeine & nicotine) cravings by 24 percent, according to a study from Plymouth University in the U.K.

After playing real-life Tetris for a while I found a way to get the first battery out of the way enough to let the second battery in.

Ian Bogost writes about a ‘rhetoric of failure’ in games designed so that the player cannot win (2007, 85). One could put Tetris or Space Invaders in such a category – the blocks or missiles keep falling until the player fails to keep them at bay, meaning that you will always, ultimately, lose the game. The winning situation, if there is one, is to get a higher score than your friends. Perhaps, as Janet Murray wrote of Tetris, this is a metaphor for a typical American life (1997, 144).

Czasy zespolone Twoja piętnastoletnia matka z plemienia Sukuma wrzucała do kąpieli kości goryla, aby przegoniły złe moce. W szałasie szaman jak jadowity wąż zmieniał skórę, wróżąc z pępowiny nagłą burzę. Spragnione owady poiły się połogową krwią. W tym samym czasie moja matka rozwijała szpitalny becik, aby sprawdzić, czy jestem cała. Wiązała na przegubach czerwone wstążki. Na suficie tańczył ogień żeliwnego pieca. Pieluchy z tetry kostniały w sieni. Był luty jak dziś na wyspie, gdzie w Cafe Throntos obchodzimy razem trzydzieste czwarte urodziny.

Life Is Like A Tetris Game : Have An End , But The Real Question Is What Was Your Score

Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.

you have to keep moving. It’s like 3D Tetris, and it never really stops. You need to keep pushing and get to the next phase.” He

tart by having an open trunk to a car with lots of anti slip pads along the floor with about ten to fifteen boxes of various sizes to put into the area. try having to configure them in as well as trying to make sure nothing is broke while placing these boxes the cars trunk states to look like a tetris game. when the cars out of room then you try the back seat as well as any open space available. but you also have to take into account who is going to the event as well and if you place certain objects such as a fake cake with points on top of the cupcake box with a flappy lid that can barely stay upright as it is.

Over the past year, as I have been working with the global tax-accounting firm KPMG to help their tax auditors and managers become happier, I began to realize that many of the employees were suffering from an unfortunate problem. Many of them had to spend 8 to 14 hours a day scanning tax forms for errors, and as they did, their brains were becoming wired to look for mistakes. This made them very good at their jobs, but they were getting so expert at seeing errors and potential pitfalls that this habit started to spill over into other areas of their lives. Like the Tetris players who suddenly saw those blocks everywhere, these accountants experienced each day as a tax audit, always scanning the world for the worst. As you can imagine, this was no picnic, and what’s more, it was undermining their relationships at work and at home. In performance reviews, they noticed only the faults of their team members, never the strengths. When they went home to their families, they noticed only the C’s on their kids’ report cards, never the A’s. When they ate at restaurants, they could only notice that the potatoes were underdone—never that the steak was cooked perfectly. One tax auditor confided that he had been very depressed over the past quarter. As we discussed why, he mentioned in passing that one day during a break at work he had made an Excel spreadsheet listing all the mistakes his wife had made over the past six weeks. Imagine the reaction of his wife (or soon to be ex wife) when he brought that list of faults home in an attempt to make things better. Tax auditors are far from the only ones who get stuck in this

One of those adversaries was Kevin Maxwell, the privileged son of a hard-charging UK media mogul. Anyone who had taken on Maxwell and his well-connected father, Robert, found that the Maxwell family frequently proved the old adage about starting a war of words with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

The following Friday, I’m playing my least favorite kind of Tetris at the reference desk: choosing which fall releases to buy for our branch. Rearranging and reprioritizing them, cutting title after title until the moment the cost dips into our budget. Every time I go to remove a book, a different face flashes in my mind, the kid or kids I specifically picked the book for.

Gli avevano raccontato che il Regno dei Morti comprendeva anche altri luoghi, più tetri di quello in cui l'avevano portato, e che nessuno restava lì a lungo: eccetto lui. Perché sapeva evocare il fuoco… Che le dame bianche temevano e amavano al tempo stesso. Ci si scaldavano le mani esangui e, quando lui lo faceva guizzare, ridevano come bambine: e lo erano, giovani e vecchie allo stesso tempo, infinitamente vecchie. Gli chiedevano di forgiare alberi e fiori, il sole e la luna. Per sé invece con le fiamme plasmava facce, quelle che vedeva quando le dame bianche lo conducevano al fiume, nel quale immergevano i cuori dei morti. — Guardaci dentro! — gli sussurravano. — Guardaci dentro e apparirai nei sogni di coloro che ti vogliono bene. — Così lui si sporgeva su quell'azzurro intenso e trasparente e contemplava il giovane, la donna e la ragazza di cui aveva dimenticato il nome, e li vedeva sorridere nel sonno. — Perché non mi ricordo più come si chiamano? — chiedeva. — Perché ti abbiamo lavato il cuore — rispondevano. — Purificato nelle acque limpide e blu che separano questo mondo dall'altro. E che donano l'oblio. Sì, offuscavano la memoria, di sicuro. Perché ogni qualvolta cercava di ricordare il passato, si trovava avvolto da quel blu, un blu carezzevole e rinfrescante. Solo con la magia del fuoco, quando il rosso prendeva il sopravvento, tornavano quelle figure, le stesse che vedeva nel fiume. Ma, prima di risvegliarsi completamente, la nostalgia ricadeva nel torpore del vuoto. — Qual era il mio nome? — domandava ogni tanto, suscitando le risa delle dame bianche. — Colui che Danza con il Fuoco — gli sussurravano. — Lo era e lo sarà sempre, perché tu rimarrai qui in eterno, non andrai via come gli altri, a cominciare un'altra vita… A volte gli portavano una bimba, che lo accarezzava con lo stesso sorriso della donna che vedeva nell'acqua e tra le fiamme. — Chi è? — chiedeva. — È stata qui e poi se n'è andata — gli dicevano. — Era tua figlia. Figlia… la parola portava l'eco del dolore, ma era soltanto un ricordo, il suo cuore non soffriva. Provava solo amore, nient'altro che amore. Esisteva solo quello.

Travel Anastasia is the worst. Lists. So many fucking lists. Nothing I do is trusted all the bags had to be rechecked by her because my checks aren’t as good as her checks. Travel Anastasia forced me to use packing cubes, meaning I spent an hour playing freaking Tetris with my case.

Tetris as Therapy Have trouble getting to sleep? Try 10 minutes of Tetris. Recent research has demonstrated that Tetris—or Candy Crush Saga or Bejeweled—can help overwrite negative visualization, which has applications for addiction (such as overeating), preventing PTSD, and, in my case, onset insomnia. As Jane explains, due to the visually intensive, problem-solving characteristics of these games: “You see visual flashbacks [e.g., the blocks falling or the pieces swapping]. They occupy the visual processing center of your brain so that you cannot imagine the thing that you’re craving [or obsessing over, which are also highly visual]. This effect can last 3 or 4 hours. It also turns out that if you play Tetris after witnessing a traumatic event [ideally within 6 hours, but it’s been demonstrated at 24 hours], it prevents flashbacks and lowers symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

the people I knew who signed up for thefacebook.com were almost certainly spending significantly more time playing Snood (a Tetris-style puzzle game that was inexplicably popular)

Try Tetris – Playing the 1980’s video game Tetris soon after a bad experience can wipe away bad memories and protect mood!

Tetris, c’était Facebook avant l’heure. Une belle manière pour les papas stressés d’oublier leurs tracas.

Well excuse the fuck out of me for not having played dead body Tetris in a trunk before, Knox. If it all gets there, what does it matter?” I can hear the eye roll in Ash’s voice.” ― Eva Ashwood, Reign of Wrath

Well excuse the fuck out of me for not having played dead body Tetris in a trunk before, Knox. If it all gets there, what does it matter?” I can hear the eye roll in Ash’s voice.

Ik kan echt dolgelukkig worden van logica, van goed ontwerp, of van spreekwoordelijke puzzelstukjes die op hun plek vallen. Positieve prikkels, noem ik ze. Ze ‘klikken’ in mijn hoofd, waardoor de andere prikkels uitgevlakt worden. Het gevoel dat erbij hoort, doet denken aan Tetris: het moment dat je met de blokjes een lijn creëert, zie je een flits, verdwijnt de rommel en ontstaat er ruimte.

Tetris as Therapy Have trouble getting to sleep? Try 10 minutes of Tetris. Recent research has demonstrated that Tetris—or Candy Crush Saga or Bejeweled—can help overwrite negative visualization, which has applications for addiction (such as overeating), preventing PTSD,

Life plays Tetris with elements, and creates our reality.

Traumatic Experiences 160 Causal Factors in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 162 Individual Risk Factors 162 Biological Factors 163 Sociocultural Factors 164 Long-Term Effects of Posttraumatic Stress 165 Prevention and Treatment of Stress Disorders 165 Prevention 165 The World Around Us Does Playing Tetris After a Traumatic Event Reduce Flashbacks? 166 Treatment for Stress Disorders 167 Trauma and Physical Health 168

Oh, that was a droll little affair,' said Peters. 'Forget about it. You know what women are like? They're like those long, skinny blocks you get in Tetris, the ones made out of four blocks straight in a row. First when you need them you can't get any, then when you don't need them anymore they're fucking everywhere and you don't know what to do with them.

Life plays Tetris with elements, and creates our reality.

Playing Tetris can reduce flashbacks of a traumatic event if done the day after the event

What would you say, Jimmy, if I were to tell you that I have made a discovery that will profoundly contradict the very nature of humanity?’ The agent stubbed out his cigarette. ‘I would say that you had my full attention, Malcolm.

Physically holding a piece of computer gaming history, despite it being just a rectangle of time-worn plastic, touched him to the very core of his soul.

The doctor had succeeded with a profound achievement while in the clutches of the otherworld. This made him different from the beings that inhabited this strange place; the shadows with vacant faces and absent expressions. After an incalculable amount of time, and with incredible persistence, he had fought against the gravitational pull intent on stealing his memories, and managed to maintain a sense of self.

Was it beautiful? My world? The kids on my block played T-ball and Tetris one accidentally shot a boy in the desert. We did a good job staying unsentimental.

mastering Tetris—really mastering it—is one of the most useful things you could ever do. If you can solve Tetris, you can solve thousands of the hardest and most important problems in science, technology, and management—all in one fell swoop. That’s because at heart they are all the same problem. This is one of the most astonishing facts in all of science.

Suzu wheezes. “Did you really just burst in here with a fanfare befitting Roku himself? What happened? I can’t believe your sudden brilliance! Do it again, do it again!

That sidewalk!” she said. “It’s built like a game of Tetris, up and down and up and down, and then suddenly it ends, and then it’s up and down again—it’s like they want to make walking as unpleasant and stressful as possible. Though I suppose it’s my fault, for leaving my palanquin and manservants at home.

Our lives can begin to feel like the latter seconds of a game of Tetris, where the descending pieces pile up faster and faster.